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Forgot about him, are we sure he's not just an alt-account of Tigerholic?

Isn't Tigerholic the only Trump guy on this forum?

Jesus, it's called Autism Spectrum Disorder for a reason. It can span a wide range. I'm not even saying he didn't do the Nazi salute, just pointing out he claims he didn't and when I first saw it, I simply thought it looked awkward and if you want to get technical, it wasn't a Nazi salute, he started covering his heart. Add in the fact he does have a disorder that most people associate with odd behavior and awkward responses and that does add some validity to his claim. Is he lying, maybe. Is Oblong 100% correct with his reasonings regarding why he doubts Elon's claim, absolutely. And again, my biggest issue is that you claim I was being disparaging. **** that ****.

No I didn't, I said it looked pretty awkward and it's possible it was just awkward and maybe even related to his autism. Non autistic people do awkward things too. I've spent too much time on this when I honestly don't have a strong opinion of if he did or didn't do it. I'm just pissed you felt I was disparaging people with autism. That was bull****.

Elon has said he's autistic. I wasn't guessing or assuming.

I have a friend of the family that doesn't like to hug. But no longer am I going to blame autisim and disparage everyone with autism just to protect him. He's either giving me a hug and everyone else or he can get the hell out of my house for being so rude the next time he comes over. Seriously though, I am not blaming autism. I said it looked like an awkward response, even if it was completely on purpose, it still looked awkward. Not having 'normal' reactions/responses can be an autistic trait. I'm not disparaging anyone with that. He claims he didn't do it, i'm pointing out something that could potentially back that up, but also completely agree with Oblong on why someone may not believe it. I'm not trying to say he definitely did or didn't do it, what I am saying is nothing disparaging though.

Absolutely true, thus why I understand the skepticism and why I said it wasn't a hill I'd die on.

Dude, WTF? How in the hell did I demean anyone?

I've been 'meh' on Elon up until the last 6 months where he's become everything he claims he hates. So i'm not looking to die on a hill for him, just saying it looked a little odd, even if it was a Nazi salute, it was an awkward Nazi salute. As for specific gestures, that by itself is not a characteristic, but the awkwardness definitely can be.

Had, some big truth in this. Often move forward despite ourselves it seems.

A nazi salute doesn't start at the heart though. If he truly is a Nazi, as intense as he gets into things, I guess I would expect him to 'do it right'. It looked like an awkward attempt to say thanks from the people he likes, those that don't question him.

Only going off a few clips i've seen online and it doesn't look good, but Elon is autistic and it could have just as easily been an awkward gesture. Maybe i'm wrong, and he truly is the complete opposite of what the left told me he was for 10 years before he jumped on the Trump train.

That's why Israel has been moving the goal posts ever since folks began working on a ceasefire. Trump claims he can put the pressure to force Netanyahu to accept. Guess we'll see.

That's what I get for giving Trump some props, should have waited a day. That said, I just searched and it seems like everyone says it's still on, just that israel is delaying right now. (Israel delaying has been Bidens issue for 6 months)

Sounds like Trumps envoy put enough pressure on Netanyahu to agree to the cease fire. As MTUtiger mentioned, let’s see how long it lasts though.

Well, the Arab Americans that voted for him already got their pay off today. Guess we’ll see if he keeps those folks when immigration comes to the forefront.

Absolute horrible decision. While I agree it's not a charge you often see on the gun charges, but the dems aren't doing themselves any favors by complaining about that charge on Hunter. And as far as the tax evasion, the lying about bribery had nothing to do with that. In fact the witness you mention was just charged with 4-6 years for tax evasion regarding the money he got from Burisma.

I was so happy to move back to the 'let our family and friends get away with small ****' with Biden. Ironically the folks that were so tired of that consistent crap from leaders of all parties for centuries that they elected Trump and even after he "Trumped" that grift and expanded it to exponential levels, they elected him again.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2025/01/13/crumbley-campaign-smear-prosecution-defense-ethan/77664834007/ Between the secret immunity and this, these convictions are going to be reversed. McDonald should be investigated as well.

4th place, all day long!

That's what he gets for going the DEI route. Go woke, go broke! </badjoke>

In regards to the conspiracy theorist stuff, I saw a video on twitter of a guy saying Trump was playing 4d chess regarding the 'Gulf of America' and the reason was that Biden's recent executive order bans offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Trump changes the name and hence he nullifies the executive order! Oh man, Trump is so much smarter than us..... @MotownWebGuy, we need a facepalm emoji added to the hot keys for this thread.

Like most things, it can be abused. Like most things, trying to make it better is the correct choice, not getting rid of it. DEI initiatives have been very beneficial, but focusing too much on DEI can be wrong as well.

I made the mistake of turning on CNN last night to get some updates on the fires as Twitter is starting to suck for even breaking news. Learned that CNN now sucks with it as well. That said, after a quick jump to Fox, I was back on CNN. The host and 1/2 of her guests (the 10 o'clock show, not sure of her name) didn't want to talk about any potential gov't failures and put it all on climate change and begged for Biden to help immediately because Californians have less then 2 weeks of federal help before Trump does everything to derail restoration efforts. And apparently to give 'both sides' an argument, the other 1/2 of the panel refused to address climate change and said it was a disaster only owned by the Dems. Newsom has recently talked about regulations hurting California, he's going to be in a lot of trouble politically (assuming he runs in 4 years) if people are still trying to rebuild their homes but are stymied by state/local regulations.

The Bulwark podcast solved this issue today. DeSantis and Landry should agree to help push through the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Trump for 1 Trillion and federally backed insurance.